Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is €10 million in the scheme with Pobal. We can get the message out today that to apply to Pobal an organisation needs to be a registered charity or to be a regulated organisation. This is one lot. If organisations do not qualify for this they should go to their local authority and that is it. Pobal will screen them. If organisations are not eligible they will be told to go to the local authority. There is an appeals system. We had to design this as quickly as we could to get the money out. I thought we would keep it simple by stating that if bodies are registered they go to Pobal and if they are not registered, they go to the local authority. I cannot make it much more simple.